Vintage Postcard – Curtis Motel Fort Lauderdale

Curtis Motel
1531 SW 26 St.    Fort Lauderdale, Florida
(Highway 84 at 15th Ave)
New, quiet location, 8 minutes from beach, convenient to eating places & shopping. Efficiencies and motel rooms, with individually controlled heat, air-conditioning & music in each room. TV.
Carl & Vendla Hedman, Owners – Managers

Tom Neel Color Cards, P.O. Box 13, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
40436

This lovely vintage card was mailed from Fort Lauderdale February 18, 1963 using a four cent Winslow Homer stamp (like this one here) to Mr. & Mrs. J Geiger, 1060 Prorily Ave, Toledo 9 Ohio. It reads:

Sunday Feb 17   It is down to 50 degrees today I did not get to church yesterday it rained all day it did not quit till 10 that evening this is where we are staying tonight I have a nice cold Pearl

There is not a bit of punctuation in that message. None.

According to Google Street View, it’s still a motel. Gone is the cute awning, the fancy script, lawn chairs and shrubbery. It’s rather stark and dare I say, unattractive?

It is now called the Sky Motel. Yellow Pages has it listed as motels which can be paid by the hour, I shit you not. I never expected Yellow Pages would call that out specifically. Do you think the Sky Motel paid for the listing that way?

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